A New York Times/CBS News poll shows Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama, 46-43 percent.
A shipment of 4,200 boxes of flowers from Bogota arrived by cargo plane in Miami Tuesday, marking the first commercial exchange under the new free trade agreement between the U.S. and Colombia, which went into effect at midnight.
Singapore was the fifth-largest arms importer in the world between 2007 and 2011.
While the rest of the world is focused on Greece?s exit from the euro zone, the news that caught my eye is Finland finally getting its first Starbucks café.
During a Tuesday morning appearance on the talk show The View, President Obama attributed JPMorgan's $2 billion trading loss to a lack of financial regulation.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded 26 Italian banks, including the country's largest lenders, as their economic performance weakened and the country's economic outlook remained troubled.
Coty Inc. withdrew its $10.7 billion offer to buy Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) following months of failed communication by Avon, the company announced on Monday.
A new study revealed that most Facebook users do not trust the company to keep their information private. It also revealed that a large majority of respondents rarely interact with ads or other sponsored links on the site.
The three siblings known as the Dougherty Gang will appear before a Georgia court Tuesday to answer to charges in that state, after having been already sentenced to decades in prison in Colorado.
The Indian rupee rebounded on Tuesday after Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) intervention and profit booking by foreign banks, and gained 20 paise.
The euro pulled back from a four-month low against the dollar during Asian trading Tuesday after Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, announced first-quarter GDP growth of 0.5 percent.
Homebuilder confidence in the U.S. single-family home market rose to a five-year high in May as buyer traffic increased and sales improved, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index released Tuesday.
U.S. business inventories rose in March at a slower pace than economists predicted, even as sales rallied, a datapoint that shows firms have not been as confident as economists and equity investors that the current economic recovery will proceed at a firm pace.
Greek leaders threw in the towel Tuesday and called for another poll after their repeated failures to form a coalition government and address the country?s monumental debt crisis.
Spanish oil company Repsol started motions Tuesday to sue the Argentine government in the hope of collecting at least $10 billion for the seizure of its subsidiary YPF.
Stronger-than-expected growth in Germany helped the euro area avoid its second recession in three years at the start of 2012 but stagnation in France and contraction in southern Europe underlined the huge economic disparities across the single currency bloc.
Manufacturing activity in New York state improved moderately in May as shipments rose and employment levels and hours expanded, a report from the New York Federal Reserve Bank said Tuesday.
The latest crisis in Air India, India's state-owned airliner, began a week ago when striking pilots suddenly reported sick in huge numbers. The crisis has entered its eighth day Tuesday with the carrier cancelling 24 more flights even as no indication of a solution is seen on the horizon.
President Karolos Papoulias suggested he may propose a government led by non-politician technocrats with broad national appeal, somewhat similar to what Italy adopted with Prime Minister Mario Monti.
U.S. retail sales growth slowed last month as warm weather earlier this year pulled shopping that normally occcurs in April into February and March, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, announced that it would increase the number of shares in its initial public offering, price them higher and value the company at as much as $104 billion.
The San Francisco Bay murderer in the late 60's known as the Zodiac Killer may have finally been identified.
Consumer prices in the U.S. were flat in April amid signs that a spike in gasoline costs was ebbing, according to government statistics released on Tuesday, supporting the Federal Reserve's view that the jump in fuel costs is only temporary.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Tuesday are: Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc, Infosys Ltd, UBS AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Avon Products, Inc, The Home Depot, Inc and Nokia Corporation.
Home Depot Inc. (HD.N) reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales on Tuesday after demand slowed in April following a jump in home improvement projects spurred by warm weather earlier in the year.
The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed they are charging Rupert Murdoch's former right hand woman in relation to the phone hacking scandal, which has rocked the British establishment and resulted in the closure of tabloid newspaper the News of The World.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with the futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones up 0.6 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.8 percent at 0733 GMT.
The euro zone just avoided recession in early 2012, but the region's debt crisis sapped the life out of the French and Italian economies and widened a split with paymaster Germany.
Asian markets fell Tuesday as concerns over Greece's future in euro zone increased with the continuing standstill in talks to form a government.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into China fell in April compared to the same month last year, as investors, who are concerned about the renewed debt crisis in the euro zone, cut down on spending.
